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by CarpetBench 3566 days ago
I found it hilarious the number of comments that are tirades about student loans and "personal responsibility," like it was even a significant part of the article.
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The border between hilarious and disgusting is sometimes tenuous. When I read these comments by MBAs or any other type of "educated" people, I wonder what their student loans helped them with
> The border between hilarious and disgusting is sometimes tenuous

Bit of a digression but just because sometimes it causes friction, particularly amongst people who think laughter is an inappropriate response to serious situations:

I don't think they're mutually exclusive. I find the comments themselves distasteful. That the comments exist at all is quite funny to me, because they're essentially non-sequiturs. The idea that someone would read the linked article and decide this was an appropriate context for a tirade about student loans is absurd (and therefore funny) to me.

Sort of like if we were reading Einstein's biography and someone launched into a ten paragraph essay about how all children should be killed, simply because the biography starts with Einstein's childhood.

You know you've got a live wire when the top comment has 5 likes, but 200 replies.
How would you know how many likes the top comment has, unless it's yours?
Not on HN - I was referring to the top comment on the article itself, which abandoned the topic in favor of yelling at people with student loans.
I looked at that person's profile. I would not be altogether surprised if it was a troll account.